Motivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.

I always make my dreams into goals.

It is unnecessary to say that Fidel Castro possesses the high qualities of a fighter and statesman: our path, our struggle, and our triumph we owed to his vision.

Virtually nothing is impossible in this world if you just put your mind to it and maintain a positive attitude.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it’s hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way.

Every summer’s mine.

We need an adult in the White House. When making life-or-death, war-or-peace decisions, a president can’t just pop off or lash out irrationally.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

Miracles come in moments. Be ready and willing.

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can’t imagine going through that. If you know that’s going to happen, why put yourself in that situation? I’d rather play for 20,000 screaming people, you know?

It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

I don’t worry about stress. I create it.

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.

If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

Find a job you like and you add five days to every week.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

Leaders who are kind of insecure or egocentric, they basically sabotage themselves.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

Control your own destiny! Control your own destiny!

With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I’m going to press on for equality. I’m going to press on for the sake of our children. I’m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I am going to press on.

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.

I realized why directors are such horrible people – in a way – because you want things to be right, and people will just not listen to you, and there is no time to be nice to people, no time to be delicate.

My mom cleaned toilets for a long time, and she’d seen a lot of terrible things, but she was still the strength of our family. And there are women like that all across the country – all around the world – who show that type of fortitude.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

One of the things that was really an issue was I did not want to just be a woman secretary of state. I wanted to be a secretary of a state who was a woman, but not just chosen for that particular reason.

War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans.

I write for the same reason I breathe – because if I didn’t, I would die.

Every setback means you’re one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not.

The important thing is to be in love with something.

He who molds the public sentiment… makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

A collection is not just one basic idea. It comes from something that is in the air, something you suddenly like and put down on paper and then work out.

In this great country, we celebrate success. We don’t want to penalize those who have done well.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Genius, when young, is divine.

I really like hip-hop and rap; that’s my main influence. I really wanna be more of a hip-hop artist.

Just do some kind of workout. Doesn’t matter if it’s going for a walk around the block, going for a jog, doing some calisthenics, lifting weights, going to a pool and swimming – you name it. But do something that gets your blood flowing and gets your mind in the game.

There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it’s all just noise that lets me know that I’m relevant.

Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn’t be anything for us to do.

To some degree it matters who’s in office, but it matters more how much pressure they’re under from the public.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

The U. S. Constitution doesn’t guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying the basic fundamentals.

When I started Virgin from a basement in west London, there was no great plan or strategy. I didn’t set out to build a business empire… For me, building a business is all about doing something to be proud of, bringing talented people together and creating something that’s going to make a real difference to other people’s lives.

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.

Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.

When I have a terrible need of – shall I say the word – religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

I had so many people try to talk me out of starting a rocket company, it was crazy.

I’m sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you’re afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I’m asking myself, ‚What do my girls, what do all our children deserve in their president? What kind of a president do we want for them?‘ Well, to start with, I think we want someone who is a unifying force in this country: someone who sees our differences not as a threat, but as a blessing.